John Fanta
College Basketball Broadcaster and Reporter
It was Thanksgiving week of 2019, and the UCLA Bruins were at the Maui Invitational in Mick Cronin’s first season.
For a program going through a rebuild, the trip to Hawaii started poorly with a loss to BYU, setting up a dreaded game against Division II Chaminade — from which there wasn’t much to gain.
But it would hardly be a wasted trip, as Cronin learned everything he needed to…